[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#409513: ifup and ifdown slow becouse of avahi-deamon script

[Reinhard Tartler]

Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> writes:
> This check is done at IP up time because this is in no way a once-off
> check, it could vary from network to network

Err, yes, there are broken networks in use out there. Is it really the
job of random packages to check for random breakage?

> That said being in post-down.d is completely braindead and should be
> removed from there.

I fully agree.

> On Ubuntu the network interfaces are bought up in the background so it
> doesn't cause any delays I beleive Debian still does this in the
> foreground however, 

That's correct. Bootup is blocked by this call.

> perhaps we can affect the timeout value of 'host'?

If it is too low, the check is worthless. If it is too high, it will
annoy users. I don't think there is a sensible value for this
timeout. Perhaps this check can be backgrounded, but TBH, I feel
removing the check avoids additional, unnecessary complexity.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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